The Steady Drip: Saudi Arabia’s Richest Man With Ties to Barack Obama Thrown in Jail (Connecting the Dots: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), Ritz Carlton, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Cosmos Club, Senator Abdul El-Sayed, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans & The Carnegie/Soros Network)

Saudi Arabia’s Richest Man With Ties to Barack Obama Thrown in Jail (Connecting the Dots: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), Ritz Carlton, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Cosmos Club, Senator Abdul El-Sayed, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans & The Carnegie/Soros Network)

The Epoch Times

Joshua Philipp

1/13/2018|Updated: 1/14/2018

A file image of Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal during a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake in Colombo on July 4, 2017. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images

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Saudi Arabia’s richest man was thrown in prison earlier this week after spending more than two months on lockdown at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, London-based news site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was held at the hotel along with 200 other princes and high-level officials since early November. The group was arrested as part of a large-scale anti-corruption crackdown authorized by the Saudi king and carried out by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The number of officials and princes at the Ritz dwindled over the course of two months as the detainees gave in to demands from bin Salman for either restitution payments or other forms of capitulation. Unlike the others, Alwaleed is reported to have held out and refused to pay the government $6 billion.

During his interrogation, Alwaleed may have been hung upside down and beaten, the Daily Mail reported.

Bin Salman came to power after King Salman made the unusual move of changing the order of succession. Since then, bin Salman has spearheaded rapid and sweeping reforms in Saudi Arabia by strengthening ties with the United States and Israel, and building up military defenses against Iran.

In the fall of 2017, bin Salman purged the country of anti-Semitic and anti-American clerics. Alwaleed was arrested along with 200 other princes and clerics shortly after.

Alwaleed’s father, Talal, was a communist tied to at least one coup attempt against the Saudi king.

Ties to Obama

Alwaleed holds large stakes in several U.S. corporations, including Twitter, and has ties to former President Barack Obama.

During a 2008 interview on the NY1, pro-communist former Manhattan Borough President, Percy Sutton, said he had been introduced to young Barack Obama when the future U.S. president was applying to Harvard Law School in the late 1980s.

Sutton said he was introduced to Obama “by a friend who was raising money for him,” and he identified this friend as Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, whom he described as “a principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men.” Al-Mansour asked Sutton to write a letter to his friends at Harvard to support Obama’s entry, he said.

Al-Mansour later denied that claim when contacted by Politico blogger Ben Smith.

The individual Sutton described as “one of the world’s richest men” was Alwaleed, and his principal adviser, al-Mansour, was helping to finance the education of select individuals who they believed could become assets in the future.

According to Trevor Loudon, author of “The Enemies Within,” Alwaleed’s choice of principal adviser was significant. Al-Mansour, formerly known as Donald Warden, was a mentor of Huey Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, which advocated for Maoist guerrilla warfare

Obama’s campaign initially denied Sutton’s recollection, but news outlets found a 1979 column by Chicago Tribune columnist Vernon Jarrett titled “Will Arabs Back Ties to Blacks With Cash?” that further detailed al-Mansour’s agenda.

Jarrett’s column detailed how al-Mansour was working on a program to secure $20 million a year, for 10 years, to finance minority students.

Alwaleed was also financing Islamic study programs with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist organizations at universities around the world.

In December 2005, Alwaleed gave $20 million to Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding. The move was considered especially controversial because of the center’s director, John Esposito, whom FrontPage Magazine described in 2008 as being “known for his vigorous apologetics for Islamic extremism.”

Around the same time, Alwaleed gave another $20 million to fund a similar program at Harvard University. Suzanne Gershowitz of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in the National Review that the program tends “to amplify anti-American rhetoric, legitimize conspiracy theories, and, in the name of cultural relativism, gloss over the oppression that exists in the Arab world.”

Epoch Times reporter Joshua Philipp contributed to this report.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alwaleed_Bin_Talal_Center_for_Muslim-Christian_Understanding

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) is an interfaith institution based at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.

Overview

The institution was founded at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., 1993 as the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. It is housed within the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.[1]

In 2005, a wealthy Saudi prince and businessman, Al-Waleed bin Talal, gave $20 million to the Center to promote interfaith understanding and the study of Islam and the Muslim world.[1] The center was renamed in his honor.[1][2] The $20 million gift was the second-largest ever given to the Georgetown at that point.[1] Bin Talal simultaneously gave $20 million to Harvard University's interdisciplinary Islamic studies program and $15 million to establish American studies programs at the American University in Beirut and American University in Cairo.[1]

The founding director of the center was John Esposito.[3] Esposito was succeeded by John O. Voll.[4]

The Center was co-publisher (with the UK's Birmingham University Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations) of the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.[5][6] The Center hosts the Bridge Initiative, which is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia focusing on analysis, educational resources, commentary and public-facing research.[7]

In 2008, Republican U.S. Representative Frank Wolf questioned the prince's gift, and whether the center had ever been critical of the Saudi government.[8]

The ACMCU was part of the collaboration with the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in 2009 for the publication of the first edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World.[9][10]

The current director is Nader Hashemi.

Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aal_al-Bayt_Institute_for_Islamic_Thought

Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre is the Parent institution for the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (RABIIT).

The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (RABIIT) is an international Islamic non-governmental, independent institute in Amman, Jordan.[1]

The late King Hussein Bin Talal established the Institute in 1980, and entrusted it to Prince Hassan bin Talal. It passed on to Crown Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein on August 8, 1999, and then to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, who is the chair of the board of trustees.

Connecting the Dots:

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